DBMS > Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. FoundationDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. FoundationDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#235	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

drill.apache.org

github.com/apple/foundationdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

drill.apache.org/docs

apple.github.io/foundationdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

FoundationDB

Google

Initial release

2017

2012

2013

2010

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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